Brandon Zhang (@heybran) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I am a web developer, birds and wildlife photograhper from China. My photos can be found in the WordPress Photo directory or on my personal website. The best way to get in touch with me is by email: heybran[at]proton.me.

WordCamps
– Attendee, WordCamp Cebu 2024
– Attendee, WordCamp Asia 2025
– Volunteer, WordCamp Europe 2025

WordPress Origin Story

The industrial company I worked at as a salesperson back in 2017 needs to rebuild its website. Initially we bought a plan for a domestic drag and drop page builder in a closed platform, but at that time I have zero experience in web design, so the one I set up with the page builder doesn’t look good at all. In year 2019, we decided to hire a local web agency to redo a website, but again it’s really not what we wanted.

At this time, I’ve been itching to learn some web development knowledge so maybe one day I can build the site myself. That’s when I stumbled into WordPress from a Youtube video at the end of 2019. Next year, I volunteered to build the website with WordPress on my free time. I did ask for a pay for my time and my management team agreed. I’m really grateful for that. The first iteration was using Elementor (it’s version 2 if I remembered it correctly), but the page speed was not good so I switched to Kadence blocks and converted the pages to blocks-based. Then after that and before I switched to tech officially, I did two freelance projects in the same industry. With these two projects, I’m able to do lots of layout manually with the CSS.

Member Since: August 23rd, 2023
Location: Fuzhou, China (UTC+8)
Website: heybran.tech
GitHub: heybran
Job Title: WordPress Developer
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Contribution History

Accessibility Contributor
Core Contributor
Photo Contributor
WordCamp Volunteer

Posted a reply to Consider avoid undefined array key error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Stefano, Thanks for getting back to me so quick. The error was found in…
4 months ago
Created a topic, Consider avoid undefined array key error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, This is not a request for support, I'm op…
4 months ago
Mentioned in [60641] on WordPress SVN:
Media: ensure `wp_get_attachment_image` uses valid user-provided width and height.
5 months ago
Posted a reply to CTA buttons disabled after publish date selection in sidebar (v3.5.16+), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, I would like to weigh in on this topic. We postponed the update…
5 months ago
Submitted pull request #9315 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
63714 - Ensure `wp_get_attachment_image()` doesn't overwrite an already valid user-provided width and...
6 months ago
Posted a reply to Need Free Alternative to Ally by Elementor (Formerly One Click Accessibility), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry, I just found out from this issue https://github.com/bennyluk/Sienna-Accessibility-Widget/issues/30 that the widget itself is not…
7 months ago
Posted a reply to Need Free Alternative to Ally by Elementor (Formerly One Click Accessibility), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Is this something you're looking for? Demo: https://accessibility-widget.pages.dev/ Source Code: https://github.com/bennyluk/Sienna-Accessibility-Widget Although it's not…
7 months ago
Created issue #70484 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Image Block: not able to resize image when using resize handles
7 months ago
Created issue #3067 in the WordPress/Learn repository:
Feedback - Typo found on tutorial `Introduction to securely developing plugins`
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Make LinkControl show search results in same order as the results from server, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm closing this topic as we will not implement this for now.
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Make LinkControl show search results in same order as the results from server, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello @ravindra107 Thanks for reviewing, but I'm developing locally though, and it's also behind a…
1 year ago
Created a topic, How to make LinkControl show search results same as the results from server, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello WordPress devs, Greetings from China. We had…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Paginationr does not reload query, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I see. What do I need to do in my local environment to match yours…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Paginationr does not reload query, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, not sure, but something might be off with the offset, I just checked…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to How to find elements with a specific ID or class on the web?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I believe you already have your custom css added, now you just need to add…
1 year ago
Suggested 30 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Created issue #2016 in the WordPress/Learn repository:
Feedback - typo found on tutorial content
2 years ago
Posted a reply to Having text with the same aspect ratio, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I think in this case, it would be better to crop this image https://test.sacconicase.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cercaefiltra-4.jpg, removing…
2 years ago
Posted a reply to Need help with embed code, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please note that mine solution is not good as I'm using :has() selector which does…
2 years ago